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Maggie Burton

Jan 23 • 3 tweets • 1 min read

I know there are many problems bigger than this one caused by the pandemic. But I miss baby playgroups and all my little niblings and cousins and other baby friends. And I can’t wait for all kiddos to get back to being in community with positive role models. It takes a village.

I just want to squish my friends babies, ok? 😭 #COVIDSucks

Also really feeling for everyone who became first time parents during the pandemic years.

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Jan 19

“Let no one imagine that because he lives in a modern home with all conveniences, clean surroundings and a garden, that he has no responsibility for how others live.” - Editorial in response to the report of the St. John’s Housing Commission in the Daily News, 1943

“This report and all the effort that has gone into the drafting of it can be an historic document or a waste of time. If it should prove to be the latter we shall condemn ourselves as a selfish, apathetic community deserving of all the ills that may befall us”

Love to be reminded of the radical beginnings of the social housing movement in SJ.

“we can no longer tell the slum-dweller to wait until he can, if he ever can, buy himself out of the slums; he must be helped to get out of them, and they must be abolished by public action.”

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May 26, 2020

In case you are looking to understand the Council history on the Park Hotel vote I've got some links for you. Also, the City website search function is SO MUCH better now than it was in the past so if you search "1 Clift's-Baird's Cove" you can get lots of info:

On Sept 12 2018 Committee of the Whole debated whether or not to consider the Park Hotel. Here is that agenda: stjohns.ca/sites/default/…

Here is a CBC article from the same day: cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…

On Sept 17, 2018, a Decision Note was prepared for Council following the Sept 12 COTW discussion, updated to include a referral to the Built Heritage Experts Panel and a need for a Land Use Assessment Report which were requested by Council. That note: tinyurl.com/y9as7mmu

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May 6, 2020

Here are some notes on the new inspection powers from the HoA, nothing I enjoy more than comparing old legislation with recent amendments.

The new power to put people on the ferry seems to require two cabinet ministers’ input. That’s a pretty involved process. See below. 1/

The inspection powers in s.50 are very very broad. Maybe too broad—it seems they could be used to investigate any “health hazard”, eg illegal drug use. This is probably important to clarify! However insofar as there is news here the news happened in 2018 when act was passed 2/

As the new inspection powers in s.50 are almost *exactly* the same as the *old* inspection powers! One change is that they can now stop a moving vehicle.

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